Comment by hicharles

Comment by Mugiwara

... Can't use the bonfires I used one year ago... Now HOW I am supposed to get enough flowers :o impossible lol. Blizz didn't think this time properly :/

Comment by Xitrus

they could make the setpieces cheaper or just take this one out of the meta

Comment by Afenar

course they'll fix it..i hope ^_^

Comment by Afenar

GM have said that they already know about this problem...huh

Comment by kosajk

good for them, and what now ? :)

Comment by kaspers

it is Not a error ;) hehefor now we need to play wow 1 year more ;) thihi

Comment by kosajk

1 year more will not make any good on daily you can get 140 blossoms :) and they last 14 days so its now or never :)

Comment by escudo

ca 2 1/2 yeahrs -.-

Comment by zvjeran

After dancing you can sell your set to get the Burning Blossoms back, so you can buy other stuff. I couldn't sell all my stuff, just the shoulders.

Comment by Mugiwara

More like never, need sandals for achievement, which cost 200. Can get only 140 flowers during this festival. After 14 days they vanish. So... I will be never able to do this achi :| Nice...? Don't think so.

Comment by ElentilSDS

Yeah all players seem to have the same problem. I believe its easier for them to just remove this achievement from the "Flame Warden" requirements and just get on with it. Since you have to run all around the map for the desecration / honor in order to get the other achievements done, I dont see why we should be forced to buy the set and spin around like idiots for 1 minute, just to spend 400 blossoms. Plus if someone wants to buy the brazier or / and pet, the cost is 700 blossoms, which means dailies plus all the desecration/honor u can get.

Comment by Dreamlore

Your logic, it has no sense.

Just because you think this achievement is stupid, you think Blizz would just let it be? Personally I'd like to complete all the (seasonal) achievements, even if they are not part of meta. I just want the points, and something to do.

Comment by Puggan

If you done all "one time only" quests last year, you can only get 10 from daily for 14 days = 140

+120 from the new fires in northrend

Still not 400

Is it posible to get it this year, or do i have to buy the 200 part now, a 100 part next year, and last part the year after?

Comment by Gretzky

Note that upon completion of this achievement you can sell the shoulder piece back for 100 Burning Blossoms refund (within next 2 hours). You can't do that with the chest piece nor the boots though.

Comment by Pixelslayer

Basically, they are making all the people who got ahead on the fire fest last wait another year, or more. At the same time, they are letting people slide who did not get ahead with the Brew of the Month Club last year. That achievement was taken out of the meta achievement. How is this any kind of fair?

Comment by Janus1

You can't wait another year.

The Burning Blossoms have a duration of 14 days. If you've done a chunk of this achievement last year, you cannot complete this achievement this year as it currently stands.

Blizzard will either have to remove this achievement from the meta, or make the clothing items cheaper, allow everyone to re-do previously Honored/Desecrated fires, or hand out blossoms for previously completed fires.

Comment by Jetstream

The fires and some of the other quests are bugged this year. If you did them last year, they won't let you do 'em again.

Comment by Janus1

- Stormpeaks: K3. One for each faction on either side of the town.

Comment by Toastytoes

They did? I'll have to go look for them then!

Comment by vaijim

All the quest from the fire are repetable so you can go to same fire every day and do the same quest they mark not as daily and give the reword 5 bolsoms ans gold so easy can take all items in 10 days! also you have miniest 8k gold i thing is bug so run now before fix it :):):)

And ofc the quest count for the 3000 guest all time you do the quest

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Comment by Nexun

I believe the issue regarding bonfires may have been fixed? I have just desecrated a bonfire in Nagrand that I desecrated yesterday. This is strange as I assumed a hotfix would be given during the weekly maintenance. Anyone else found this?

I'm not complaining, it's extra money and blossoms :-)

EDIT: In addition to the reset of the bonfires, the capital city's flame quests have also been reset, including Exodar/ Silvermoon which hadn't reset in the first place anyway.

Comment by Khalix

For those of you that werent able to do the bonfires because you did them last year, they will be reset with todays maintenance/restarts. That being done on my server already I can confirm that yes, they have been reset. Happy pole dancing! :)

Edit: Looking at my quest counter for the 3000 quests completed achievement it seems that I have lost quite a few. It looks like they have completely reset them as if you had never done them before. So for anyone that is working on the quests completed achievements it looks like we have to go do all of them all over again. Which is fine with me, some of the easiest gold in game I have ever seen.

Comment by triger666

I just wanted to put emphasis on the fact that ONLY the shoulders can be sold back, no matter what order you purchase the items. So just make sure you where not making your purchase calculations (like I had initially done) on a 200 blossom reimbursement for the sandals.

Comment by Kovenant

It seems as if you can only re-sell the shoulders and get 100 blossoms back. Further to this though, in the last few days it looks like all the honoured flames around the world are now available again. I did all of Eastern Kingdoms and most of Kalimdor on Sunday, and all the quests are available again, so presumably Blizz have reset them all, enabling everyone to do it all again if you fancy the extra money and extra blossoms.

Comment by wamberella

Performing the "pole dance" (regardless of whether or not you are wearing the reward item set for the achievement) grants you a buff called Ribbon Dance that grants a +10% XP for killing monsters buff. The duration of the buff is dependent upon how long you spin, maxing out at 1 hour (about a minute of spinning). It does not appear that the buff itself has a wowhead page for separate comments, so I'm posting this here.

I am curious if anyone knows if this buff stacks with other XP increases, like rested XP and heirloom items (i.e. Strengthened Stockade Pauldrons). I would assume the effect is cumulative, but I can't seem to find a way to tell for sure.

Comment by MidsummerEvent

All NPC locations for the Midsummer Fire Festival Achievement can be found here.

Comment by Bazil

To be clear, you need to UNEQUIP the shoulders to sell them back.

Comment by Kaklasi

Gives wrong message, no?

Comment by mrdummy

It's only strange you can only soulbound shoulders sell back within 2 hours after selling to supplier npc, for same 100 blossoms price.Two another items, Vestment of Summer and Sandals of Summer, are also soulbound, but you cannot sell it back.Very strange logic! (only because 'use: function' inside both items)

With full exploring all zones and dialy throwings, you can complete the stupid dancing archievement and sell shoulderd back, you have enough to buy brazier the dancing flames or pet :)

Comment by AzurePai

You can also use a dancepole near a fire of the opposite faction for this.

So, you'll be all like: "lol Im in ur camp dancing around ur pole"

Comment by toastmaster7727

Amazingly, all female gnomes already have this achievement when they create their character. This is certainly a bug..../wink.

Comment by fatwalrus

In addition to the 10% experience bonus the ribbon dance also seems to increase chance of a random death the longer you keep charging it.

Comment by viciouzzz

I finished this achievement already, and bought the set sepparatly. DON'T DO THIS!

First thing U gotta do is get 400 tokens, then buy the set all at once, then finish the achievement, then U get to sell all items back for a full refund!

Then U regain the tokens to buy other stuff!

Comment by Dyler

I had this buff and rested + heirlooms, gave me 230% extra exp.

Comment by spooky9

As of 2010 I'm unable to sell back any of the items in the Midsummer set. I just get the message "The vendor doesn't want this item".

Comment by rockdemon247

As of 10:09 am EST on 06/21/10 on Eredar (ally) -PVP us server. I could not sell back ANY of these items. I just bought them and tried immediately to try to sell them back, but they had no sell price left.

Comment by Azutael

I should mention that you can no longer turn these items in and get a refund, I atleast could not.

Comment by radu1987

i tryed reseling the sholders but could not - the messege i got for all the items when i tryed seling them back for the tokens was "the merchant doesn`t whant that item"...so it`s safe to say if you`ll do the achiev you`ll loose all the tokens for the items...your choice

Comment by Apocraphexx

Warning: It seems you're no longer able to return the items to the vendor for a refund after purchasing them. Can anyone else confirm?

I bought all 3 items of the set in the hopes I could grab the pole achievement and then return them and pick up the pet, but the vendor isn't interested in the items any more.

Comment by Locknew

You cant sell back the armor anymore keep that in mind.

Comment by SvenL

Bought the gear, did the dance, but could NOT sell them back.

Comment by SaltyLeonie

Having just bought my three items and completed the dance with an alt, it appears the vendor will not give a refund on any of the pieces this year.

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Comment by jerry612

you guys all talking about the something else. where is the location to dance?

Comment by Arakantos

Just for the record, you can't sell the Shoulders back anymore.So you can't sell anything back now, which means you have to do at least 2 years to buy everything :)

Comment by john73099

This may be a silly question but where and when can you buy these items.

Comment by Xantholne

As of cata it seems this buff can last for ever aslong as you do not die. You simply go to a ribbon pole /dance and spam right click on it about 20 times in a few seconds and run away. You will continue to spin and gain the buff. Very helpful if you are leveling or just for show. You can mount aswell as cast while having the buff. I'll be submitting a screen shot of the effect it has when mounted with a weapon out. For males (most of the races it seems) It looks like you are jousting, for others such as female blood elfs, its to the side.

Comment by Anok8

Pay attention: If the durability of your 3(Chest,Sholders,Sandals) gear parts are at 0 then you'll have to repair the gear first, then dance on the Ribbon Pole to get the achiev. Good luck :D

If you're not a priest you can still get the cloak since it's a JP legacy item. Other classes will likely have similar colors on their JP gauntlets as well, since they're all from Firelands.

NOTE: The Fire Festival Set is "Unique", so you can not transmogrify those three pieces.

Comment by jjuls

Now this year I see a hat at the vendor for 350. Is this hat now required for the completed midsummer set? If so it's gonna throw me off because I bought the pet.

Comment by Rj23

So for people who still cannot figure this out. Go to any of the flames outside of a capitol city. Put on your Midsummer gear and then click on the pole. There is a pole at all the flame sites away from capitol cities. Does not matter which faction pole you use. 60 secs pass and BOOM! you have a new achieve! Grats!

Comment by zlloyd1

Can I buy one piece this year, and still have it for next year, or will it be gone as soon as the festival ends?

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Comment by Fulovely

You can buy the tree items, do the dance and instantly sell all three items back to the vendor and you gain all your flowers back for buying toys or stuff.

Comment by dalerus

for those doing this currently (6.2)..

The costume is returnable for its full burning blossom value once used. So simply buy it, get your achievement, return it and buy yourself a vanity item. Did not check if this was said before but if you have no interest in keeping a worthless dress and some shoes, probably your best option.

Comment by chriscoats89

it seems you aren't able to get this achivement if you have the "WHEEEE!" Buff from Darkmoon Faire. So make sure to click that buff off before you dance.

Comment by sschwoyer

Update: Patch 7.2.5.

Was able to refund all 3 items after obtaining achievement.

Comment by Scoobydeux

You have to be wearing the Vestment of Summer, the Mantle of the Fire Festival, and the Sandals of Summer, net cost, 400 Burning Blossom. Subject to change, but as of this posting, none of these three items transmogs, and all three are refundable (for two hours, posted below). You can dance at the dancing pole near the vendor and have this done within two minutes, then return the three pieces for a full refund, and spend it on one of the other items you want.

You can, of course, optionally keep the items. They are permanent and do not disappear after the event ends. You might want to keep the sets if you like to role play. There is a use cosmetic buff on two of the items, applying fire to your hands and feet.

If you can't afford 400 Burning Blossom, you can approach this incrementally; you can buy the pieces you can afford and hold them for next year. If event is running out, use up your blossoms. The vendors and blossoms disappear when the event ends.

Edited June 26, 2017: Recent change; all three of the apparel items are now Cosmetic, and can now be transmogged. I can confirm that they show up in the Appearances collection. You need to keep one of each of these and not refund them if you want the transmog appearances, but you only need one of each, and you can still get a refund on your other toons.

Comment by Diboah

Buy the 3 Midsummer Reveler items at the vendor, equip it , select the pole and type /dance in your chat window. Wait 60 seconds and you are done! You can return the items within 2 hours for a full refund of your Burning Blossom to buy other items.

Comment by Diboah

Buy the 3 Midsummer Reveler items at the vendor, equip it , select the pole and type /dance in your chat window. Wait 60 seconds and you are done!